QUASAR ABSORPTION LINES
Volume 1 Lecture Slides
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Volume 1 chronicles six decades of quasar spectroscopy. The book details the nature of the Ly-alpha forest, Lyman limit systems, damped Ly-alpha absorbers, deuterium (D/H), 21-cm absorbers, HI and HeII Reionization, the WHIM, and the multiple ionization phases of metal line absorbers. Galaxies and their connections to these absorbers are treated in depth, as are the taxonomy and classes of AGN/quasar spectra and their associated absorption lines.
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Lecture slides are being added as they are created. I am starting with Volume 2 and will then proceed to Volume 1. To date, only Chapters 20-22 are available for Volume 2. Watch this space as it will be updated regularly.
A Note to Students/Learners
The lecture slides provide abridged versions of the chapter content. They are designed to be useful as personal study guides and supplements to the book chapters. Think of them as the TL;DR for each chapter.
A Note to Instructors
The lecture slides should be suitable for 30-45 minute lectures. Each focuses on the main takeaways from each chapter, skipping the larger portion of the derivations and minor points.
PART 1: BREAKTHROUGH ASTROPHYSICS
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Chapter 1 A New Science
Chapter 2 Discovery of High Redhsift Probes
Chapter 3 Journey to our Modern World View
PART 2: INTERVENING ABSORBERS
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Chapter 4 Neutral Hydrogen Absorbers
Chapter 5 Dueterium and the Big Bang
Chapter 6 21-cm Absorption
Chapter 7 Helium Absorption
Chapter 8 Low Ionization Metal-line Absorbers
Chapter 9 Intermediate Ionization Metal-line Absorbers
Chapter 10 Thw Warm/Hot Diffuse Universe
Chapter 11 High Ionization Metal-line Absorbers
PART 3: GALAXIES AND THEIR GAS
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Chapter 12 Baryons and Dark Matter Halos
Chapter 13 Studying the Circumgalactic Medium
Chapter 14 The Nature of the Circumgalactic Medium
Chapter 15 Friends of Friends and Their Gas
Chapter 16 Groups and Clusters
Chapter 17 Starbursts, AGN, and Quasars
Chapter 18 Active Black Holes and Eddington
Chapter 19 BALs, NALs, and QPQs
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